Citations:ooga booga

English citations of ooga booga

1938 January 17, Lee Pape, “Little Benny”, in The Muncie [Indiana] Morning Star, page 4:
But jimminy crickits, pop, horses stay out in the rain, and they're the strongest people there is, I said, and pop said, If this were a few million years ago when people were as strong as horses, and you had said to me Ooga booga, pop? Meaning, May I go out in the rain, father? I would of answered Scagga uk, kid, meaning Go out before I kick you out, son, but in these days people are civilized while horses are still wild at hart [sic].
2021 March 20, Elizabeth Rayne, “Neanderthals could talk, and it probably wasn’t the “ooga booga” you expected”, in Syfy‎^[1], archived from the original on 8 February 2022:
Neanderthals were found to have had hearing abilities that are eerily close to ours. They probably used more consonants than vowels, since consonants maximize the amount of information communicated in the shortest amount of time. So much for “ooga booga”.

1966 August, John S. Wilson, “ 'The Americanization of Ooga Booga' by Hugh Masekela Quartet [review]”, in High Fidelity, volume 16, number 8, page 103:
"Ooga Booga" is Hollywood African talk out of Tarzan movies, used satirically by South Africans in talking to Europeans. It has become a password among expatriate South Africans—a topsy turvy exchange that has taken on so many different shades of meaning that one is free to use any aspect of it as one wants.
1990, Bruce M. Tyler, “The Rise and Decline of the Watts Summer Festival, 1965 to 1986”, in American Studies, volume 31, number 2, →JSTOR, pages 61–81:
Hugh Masakela, a South African black trumpeter, performed with his group before a sellout crowd at the Jordan High School outdoor field. He sang from his album the Swahili song "The Ooga Booga," then riding high on the national music charts, and thrilled the black people in the audience who were basking in black pride resulting from the festival.
1992 July 15, Adam Morris ""The Planet of the Headhunters":
"Ooga booga booga," the strangers chanted. They started threatening Cruez and Scaley with their spears.
1992 December 16, Howard Rosenberg, “Bigotry on TV: The Stain Still Lingers”, in Los Angeles Times:
The other day it was “Tarzan and the Amazons,” circa 1944, whose mindless, drum-pounding, ooga-booga Africans make Alex Haley’s ancestor, Kunta Kinte, look like a refugee from another planet.

[2011 June 26, “'Ooga-booga' dancing not on, says Bangarra”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
But Bangarra Dance Theatre says it feels neglected and taken for granted by federal and state governments - and is criticised overseas for not doing "ooga-booga dancing". [...] In contrast to generally positive reviews elsewhere in Europe, artistic director Stephen Page said British dance critics view Bangarra shows through prejudiced eyes, castigating the company when it fails to perform what he described as "ooga-booga dancing".]
[2020 August 20, “The ABC pulled Bluey episodes Teasing and Flat Pack over 'racial connotations'. Here's why”, in ABC News (Australia):
The viewer complained the episode included "a term with racial connotations and a problematic history for Indigenous Australians". That term was "ooga booga".]